KARACHI, March 1: Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) on Tuesday announced the boycott of teaching process at all the colleges in Karachi on March 4 in protest of the intervention of rogue elements in the academic affairs and their misbehaviour with the college staff.

According to a SPLA official, activists of a students' organization on Tuesday, manhandled teachers, non-teaching staff and female students at the Liaquat Government Girls College, Malir and tried to abduct two female and one male teacher from the college.

"After failure in the abduction of the teachers, the members of a students organization thrashed teachers, non-teaching employees and females students" he informed adding that a non-teaching employee of the college was severely beaten up by them.

Later, he said, college teachers held a meeting at the college, which was informed that some female students of that students' organization had set up their unit at the college and they roam inside college instead of attending classes.

When these female students are asked to take classes, they misbehave with teachers and give threats of serious consequences to teachers, the meeting further told. He informed that the SPLA Karachi division at a meeting with its President Prof Riaz Ahsan in the chair condemned this incident at the Liaquat Government Girls College, Malir and observed that intervention of rogue elements in colleges' affairs had become a routine.

The meeting demanded of the government to arrest those elements involved in this incident and deploy Rangers at the college and repair college boundary wall. SPLA further demanded the rustication of five female students involved in political activities, shifting of boys' classes in the evening to some other building and end of the occupation of classroom from student's organization. -PPI